Modeling 6 MV gas switches for the ZR accelerator

Author

Rosenthal, S.E. ; Elizondo, J.M. ; Maenchen, J.E. ; Struve, K.W. ; McDaniel, D.H. ; Corley, J.P. ; Johnson, D.L. ; Oliver, B.V.

Author_Institution

Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

15-18 June 2003

Firstpage

163

Abstract

The "rimfire", or "cascade" gas switch Bloomquist, DD. et. al.,(1985), developed at Sandia National Laboratories, presently operates both in Hermes III (in oil with peak voltage of 2.5 MV) and in Z (in water at 4.8 MV). In the proposed ZR accelerator Struve, KW. et. al., (2001), pulse-compression section the switch needs to reliably function (less than 0.2 % probability of pre-fire, and /spl sim/2.5 ns jitter) at up to 5.5 MV, above any previous operation. We are studying appropriate design enhancements theoretically and in the laboratory Corley, JP. et. al., on Sandia\´s Advanced Pulsed Power Research Module (APPRM, 1 MA, 800-ns pulse).

Keywords

design of experiments; pulsed power technology; reliability; switches; timing jitter; 5.5 MV; Sandia National Laboratories; ZR accelerator; advanced pulsed power research module; design enhancements; gas switches; pulse-compression section; Acceleration; Dielectrics; Electrodes; Jitter; Laboratories; Petroleum; Plastics; Switches; Voltage; Zirconium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 2003. Digest of Technical Papers. PPC-2003. 14th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7915-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPC.2003.1277683

Filename

1277683